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Moral Politics : How Liberals and Conservatives Think George Lakoff
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press

I've lived in more states known for conservative politics than liberal politics (Iowa, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Arizona). They can on the drop of a hat start tearing up and crying when they think of some politician they like like JFK or Obama, Or, in a flash they can be filled with hatred and anger at the mere mention of someone they don't like such as G W Bush, or Rush Limbaugh. First, the author points out how both conservatives and liberals adhere to values that are formed around a moral code, but conservatives follow some additional core values that liberals do not. That said, liberals should stand for something. Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics George Lakoff explains the two different metaphors of the family for a nation that lead to the different world. Most of my close liberal friends have moved around a lot. More than a decade and a half after its publishing, Lakoff's theory as presented in Moral Politics remains the most comprehensive model of the moral systems supporting liberalism and conservatism. Conservatives understand their ideological opposite numbers far better than do liberals. You know this is exactly what led George Lakoff to write Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think? Filed under: Book Reviews, Government & Politics Haidt's research asks individuals to answer questionnaires regarding their core moral beliefs—what sorts of values they consider sacred, which they would compromise on, and how much it would take to get them to make those They're listening and understanding what liberals think—and what liberals think of them. The Book: Moral Politics–How Liberals and Conservatives Think, by George Lakoff, 426 pages. In Metaphors We Live By, Lakoff argues that metaphor is so much more than that. Excerpts from the Rockridge Institute web site: Raising real children · The nation as a family. People often think of metaphor as nothing more than a rhetorical device, a tool that writers use to add flavor to their writing. Some argue that what makes us conservative or liberal is a particular way of seeing the world.